Hive Metastore on a Cloud Native Database (Spanner) Converting an open source software to cloud native has many challenges like authn, authz, scalability, and monitoring. While making Hive Metastore a cloud native application, the backend database MySQL has become the limiting factor. We have patched Hive Metastore to add Spanner as a cloud native database option. In this talk we will go over the challenges of the integration between Hive Metastore and Spanner and compare the outcome.